Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1887-11-12

.But,s ssos ssuns woman, sshars = :
horrid creature that hos % injured mo thae
ather than make up With her Sould die
first" Well. sister, you may take your
choice for one or the other Il viii be-
your complete pardon OF her or Gods
eternal Punishment Of you. But, says
some nan, sthat fellow who cheated me
out of those goods, or damaged nv busi-
ness credit, or started that lie about me In
the newspapers, or by his perfdy broke mp
| my domestic happiness, forgive him cam
not-forgive him l viii not. = Well,
brother, take your choice. You will never
be nj peace with God till you are at peace
with man. Feeling as you now do, you
| would not get 50 near the harbor of Heaven
as to see the light-ship. Better leave that
man with the G cd who said: "Vengeance
is mine, viii repay You may say: 81
will make him sweat for that yet, / will
make him squirm, mean TO pursue him
to the death, bat you are damaging your.
self more than you damage him and you
are making Heaven for your own soul an
impossibility. If he will not be reconciled
| to you, be reconciled to him. In five or
six hours it will be sundown. The dahlias
will bloom against the western sky. Some
| and bury the old quarrel at least six feet
deep. aLet not the sun go down on your
| wrath" 80
aBut," You say, II have moro than can
bear; too much is put upon me, and I Am
not to blame if am somewhat revengful
and unrelenting." Then I think Of the
little child at the moving of some goods
from store. The father was putting
| some rolls Of goods on the child's arm,
package after package, and some one said,
@That child is being overloaded and as
much ought not to be put upon her, when
the child responded, "Father knows how
much / can carry" and God, our Father,
will not allow to much imposition on his
children. In the day Of eternity it will be
found you had not one annoyance too
many, not one aspiration too many, not
one outrage too many. Your Heavenly
Father knows how much you can carry.
| Again: We should not let the sun 20
down on our wrath because it is of little
importance what the world says of you or
does to you when you have the afiuent God
of the sunset as your provider and defender.
People talk as though it were a fixed spec.
tacle of nature and always the same. But
| no one ever saw two sunsets alike, and II
the world has existed 5000 years there
have been about 2, $4,000 sunsets, each Of
them as distinct from all the other pictures
in the gallery of the sky as Titian's "Last
Supper" Rubens' Descent from the
Cross" Raphaers TRANSPORTATION" and
Michael Angeles "Last Judgment" are
distinct from each other. If that God Of
such infinite resources that He can put on
! the wall of the sky each night more than the
Louvre, and the Luxembourg, and the
| Vatican, and Dresden and Venetian CALLER.
les all in one is my God and your God,
our provider and protector, what is the use
| of our worrying about any human antag-
onism? IT we are misinterpreied, the God
| of the many colored sunset can put the
| right color on our action. If he can afford
to hang such masterpieces over the outside
| wall of Heaven and have them obliterated
| in an hour, he must be very rich in re.
sources and can put us through in safety.
Ii all the garniture Of the western heavens
at eventide is but the upholstery of one OF
the windows of our future homo, what
small business for us to be chasing enc.
mics! Let not this Sabbath's sun go down
upon your wrath.
Mahomet said: @The sword is the key
of Heaven and hell, drop of blood shed
is better then fasting, and wounds in the
day of JUDGMENT Respondent as vermilion,
and odoriferous as musk" But, my
hearers, in the last day we will find Just
the opposite Of that to be true, and that
the sword never unlocks Heaven, and that
He who heals wounds is greater than he
who makes them, and that on the same
ring are two keys: Gods forgiveness Of us
and our forgiveness of enemies; and these
two keys unlock Paradise.
And now wish for all of you beautiful
sunset in your earthly existence. With
some Of you it has been a long day Of
trouble, and with others of you it will be
far from calm. When the sun rose at 6
o'clock it was the morning Of youth, and
fair day was prophesied, but by the time
the MONDAY of nidlife had come and the
clock Of your earthly existence had struck
II, cloud racks gathered and tempests bel
lowed in the track Of tempest. But as the
evening of old age approaches pray God
the skies may brighten and the clouds be
piled up into pillars as of celestial temples
to which you go, or move as with mounted
cohorts come to take you home.
And as you sink out Of sight below the
horizon may there be a radiance of Chris
tian example lingering long sitter You are
gone, and on the heavens be written in
letters Of sapphire, and on the waters in
letters Of opal, and on the hills In letters
of emerald "Thy sun shall no moro 20
down, neither shall thy moon withdraw
itself, for the Lord shall be thine everlast-
ing light and the days of thy mourning
shall be ended" So shall the sunset OF :
earth become the sunrise of Heaven.
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